Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca; or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels; consisting of above Four Hundred of the most Authentick Writers, beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English, Ramusio in Italian, Thevenot, &c. in French, De Bry and Grynaei Novus Orbis in Latin; the Dutch East-India Company in Dutch: and continued with others of Note, that have Publish'd Histories, Voyages, Travels or Discoveries, in the English, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German or Dutch Tongues, relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe or the Islands thereof, to this present Time: with the Heads of several of our most Considerable Sea-Commanders and a great Number of Excellent Maps of all Parts of the World and Cuts of most Curious Things in all the Voyages; also an Appendix of the Remarkable Accidents at Sea and Several of our Considerable Engagements: The Charters, Acts of Parliament, &c. about the East-India Trade and Papers relating to the Union of the Two Companies; throughout the whole All Original Papers are printed at Large; as the Pope's Bull to Dispose of the West Indies to the King of Spain; Letters Patents for Establishing Companies of Merchants; as the Russia, East India Companies, &c. Letters from one Great Prince or State to another; showing their Titles, Style, &c.; to which is prefixed, a History of the Peopling of the Several Parts of the World and particularly of America; An Account of the Ancient Shipping and its successive Improvements; together with the Invention and Life of the Magnet and its Variation, &c., in Two Volumes, Vol. I